hmm this is a stickie but the files are gone can someone reupload them and an admin or mod edit them into the first post?

Edited in the original file and put in Duh102's GiMP Palette files. Enjoy.

All sprites I create with the greyscale palette are not working ingame (out of palette error). Can anyone check if the greyscale palette is actually correct?!

Here you can see the cannon-ish sprite looks alright on the first view, but the transparency (pink) is not working! Hence the Shell that is being shot is working alright, it has been made using the green palette.


Same sprite, but actor looking to the left.

You need to put them in the full palette when you're finished.

or you could use them as swatches, like they are intended, and paint onto something already in palette

Need .pal file.
Argh.

EDIT: nvm, I made one by magic.

for mod making i need gimp or photoshop??

You can use MSPaint if you like. People seem to like GraphicsGale, Paint Shop Pro, and yes, Gimp and Photoshop.

Ok, I'm somewhat confused here. Let's say I want to make an actor, and I want to use Gimp. Could I just open up Gimp, choose the Palette, and start drawing?

The way Gimp works, you have to first create a new image, then put it into palette by doing image-mode-indexed, then selecting the Cortex palette. Also, to access the palette directly, you have to add the colormap tab to one of your docks, or make it a floater.

Where in god's name is the option to put the colormap into a dock? Aside from that, thank you so much.

What he said. I'm vaguely trying my hand at making a mod myself, but a crippling lack of determination, and an equaling crippling presence of Red Faction: Guerilla are making it difficult. So far, I have a very unfinished lower leg. Sprite. Only.

This is gonna sound really stupid, but I can't get any of the colors to turn out like they should. I used both color palettes and swatches in GIMP and Photoshop but I still can't make the .bmp's look right. One color turns into a totally separate color on the canvas. What's wrong?

Do you have to use "Photo Shop & GIMP"?

you dont need either, just use paint.